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- 01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy
business school in the 1970s, Segel spent part of his studies in Florence. “It had an enormous impact on my life,” he says now. Segel fell in love with architecture and design there, a passion which led him into the real estate business...
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April White
- 15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense
“Iron Man suit.” The idea seemed absurd—but not because of the comic-book connotations. Tseng, with a background in mechanical engineering and on-the-ground experience in actual conflict zones such as Afghanistan, where the so-called Iron...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
global and a series of regional B Climate Collectives designed to support businesses to share what they are learning on topics such as how to move to a regenerative business model. How might you explore ways to reimagine your business...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book
bookselling industry, is growing. The American Booksellers Association counted 2,321 physical independent bookstores in the United States in 2017—40 percent more than there were in 2009. Raffaelli, who has also researched what he calls “technology reemergence” in the...
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April White
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
business. An eight-year veteran with the prominent New York venture capital firm of J.H. Whitney & Company, he launched his own shop backed by $8 million from the Bass brothers. Seven Honeywell engineers in Boston had come up with a View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
24 papers in Colorado was structured to keep control in local hands? We set up the Colorado News Conservancy as a public benefit corporation. We earmarked a majority of shares to be eventually fully locally owned. The Conservancy is View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
industry to the production of mechanical (“dumb”) and electronic (“smart”) beds. Eventually, he expects to develop an entire suite of compact hospital room furnishings. The Alumni New Venture Contest was created with two goals in mind: to...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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New Releases
research has led to the development of a new organizational framework - the differentiated network - that will enable MNCs to succeed. Through systematic examination of MNCs, Nohria and Ghoshal show that differentiation coupled with strong integrative View Details
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Aug 1998
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Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates
Tiller. The three were cited for their role in forming and leading the Harbus Foundation, a grant-making organization established under the auspices of the Harbus News Corporation to support local community organizations. Founded in 1997, the Harbus Foundation is View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Ideas: Books
improve the level of critical and divergent thinking before decisions are made while simultaneously building consensus to help implement those decisions. Actual situations examined include tragedy atop Mt. Everest and the space shuttle disaster. Levers of Organization...
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- 24 Apr 2020
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Spreading the Love
cofounded the greeting card company in 2015—have backgrounds in engineering and manufacturing, and the company has a team in Vietnam that is well-versed in sourcing materials and shipping to the US. “At our core we’re a design and...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
at 40 percent), proactively publicize the School's Web site and add new features that will attract more alumni to the site, and develop push technology allowing alumni to subscribe to specific online offerings. Last year, the committee served as a sounding board for...
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Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition
Illustration by Peter Arkle KitNipBox is a monthly subscription service for cat owners. Each box contains products designed to keep cats happy, healthy, and fit: toys, treats, health and hygiene products, must-have accessories, innovative...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes
performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers should focus on developing an...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2014
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Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
series of summit-style events that bring like-minded technology and design innovators together with experts in the field of aging. The next step will be scaling the enterprise through local chapters in cities around the world and raising...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Made in the USA
mechanical engineering courses at Northeastern University, and two years as a second lieutenant in the Army (“doing a major’s job”)—proved to be ideal credentials for Knott’s eventual role as founder, president, and CEO of Riverdale Mills...
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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
and HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson READ MORE [Sound of golf club hitting ball] In 2020, Aaron Sabin was working as a mechanical engineer at the golfing equipment company TaylorMade. Aaron Sabin: What I would do is I would View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
Operation CRUSH. Davidow put together a talented team that set an outrageously aggressive goal: 2,000 design wins. The goal, the name, the team — aggression was written all over this effort. Andy Grove was and is a tenacious and...
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